Current Affairs Quiz - April 2022

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Indian private sector lender Axis Bank has acquired the Indian consumer banking businesses of US bank Citigroup.
The sale includes businesses of credit cards, retail banking, wealth management and consumer loans for Rs 12,325 crore, as part of plans to exit its retail operations in 13 markets. The sale excludes Citi’s institutional client businesses in India.

 

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Tripura Chief Minister Bipab Kumar Deb recently launched “Mukhyamantri Nibir Matsyachash Prakalpa”. It is an integrated fishery scheme.
Tripura government has allocated Rs 6 crore in the budget for promotion and support to biofloc technology for fish production. The Chief Minster also pushed for Biofloc Fish Farming as a environment-friendly technique for fish farming.

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Novaya Gazeta is Russia’s leading independent newspaper. Dmitry Muratov, the newspaper’s editor, shared the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize with Maria Ressa, from the Philippines. Muratov donated his Nobel medal to be auctioned off to raise funds for Ukrainian refugees.
The newspaper has suspended its operations after pressure from Russian authorities. Russian lawmakers passed a law earlier, threatening jail terms of up to 15 years for information deemed to be fake by Russian authorities.

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The plenary body of Chile’s Constitutional Convention formally approved the Rights of Nature within its proposed constitutional text.
The Chilean people will now vote on the final version. After the vote, Chile could become the second such country in the world besides Ecuador.

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NASA and SpaceX are set to launch astronauts to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 is the fourth crew rotation mission that will carry an international crew of four astronauts on a science expedition. The mission will fly a new Crew Dragon spacecraft and will launch on a Falcon 9 booster. The spacecraft has been named “Freedom” by the Crew-4 astronauts.

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The Ministry of Civil Aviation has launched International Air Connectivity Scheme (IACS) scheme (International UDAN) to enhance air connectivity from certain States of the country with selected international destinations.
The State Government of Assam, Manipur and Tripura have identified routes connecting Guwahati, Imphal and Agartala with selected international destinations.

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Ministry of Finance oversees the ‘Stand Up India Scheme’, which aims to promote entrepreneurship among women, Scheduled Castes (SC) & Scheduled Tribes (ST) categories, to help them in starting a Greenfield enterprise.
The scheme has completed six years and loans worth more than ₹30,160 crore have been sanctioned in the last six years. Over 1.33 lakh new entrepreneurs have been facilitated and more than 1 lakh women promoters have benefitted from this Scheme during the last six years.

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The United Nations designated April 5 as the International Day of Conscience. It aims to remind people to self-reflect to improve themselves, their communities, and the world. At the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, the Kingdom of Bahrain sponsored the initiative to designate 5 April as an International Day of Conscience.
The third International Day of Conscience was observed in the year 2022. The Day is led by the campaign of ‘Promoting the Culture of Peace with Love and Conscience’.

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‘Project Kuiper’ is a flagship project of the ace multi-national technology company Amazon. It is Amazon’s proposed internet-from-space initiative.
Amazon announced that it has booked new launches on three different rockets to get its satellites into orbit. The satellites will fly on rockets currently being developed by European launch provider Arianespace, US-based United Launch Alliance, and Blue Origin.

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‘Sarhul Festival’ is the most popular tribal celebration across the state of Jharkhand region. It denotes the beginning of the New Year.
This vibrant festival is celebrated at the beginning of spring every year. This year, it fell on April 4. It is usually celebrated by the tribal communities of the local Sarna religion, especially by the Munda, Ho, and Oraon tribes.